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It had nothing to do with government conflict. The North Vietnamese wanted independence from imperial powers, and piggy-backed on communism. They threw out the French, and the Americans came in at the request of the South government, which was installed by the French. It was an imperial war. The North Vietnamese were completely justified in their cause.

The North Vietnamese wanted independence from imperial powers, and piggy-backed on communism.

They already had independence, in 1954. The North Vietnamese government was a typical Stalinist regime--Ho Chi Minh was a founding member of the Communist Party of France and was a COMINTERN agent in Moscow.

The North Vietnamese were completely justified in their cause.

The North Vietnamese murdered, drove out of the country, or enslaved in camps millions of people during and after the war.